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by gsibble 4y ago
We're a terrible employer? Let me tell you what kind of employer we are. We pay top 1% of market. We work to have a low stress environment. We put life before work instead of work before life. We prioritize having the best benefits on
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by gsibble 4y ago
What red flags did you see? That we pay top of market? That we work to have a low stress environment? That we put life before work instead of work before life? That we prioritize having the best benefits on the market, including platinum he
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by gsibble 4y ago
No worries.
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by gsibble 4y ago
I wasn't the one who said I was living a frugal life.
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by gsibble 4y ago
I'm not going to write a trieste on why my abilities were unique and let me write this software beyond to say I had worked in that specific industry for a long while, but there were not many people that could have pulled it off. When I
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by gsibble 4y ago
No worries. Sounds like we wouldn't want you anyways if you have such poor work ethic.
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by gsibble 4y ago
I said this elsewhere but reviewing previous projects or doing a code review does help somewhat, but it leaves out my ability to see your actual coding skill re: speed. I need to get a sense of that in order to feel comfortable hiring you.
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by gsibble 4y ago
Trust me when I say I've talked to plenty of candidates who I thought were great only to learn they couldn't actually code fizzbuzz. Talking to candidates doesn't work.
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by gsibble 4y ago
Thanks! We're constantly refining it. Employee satisfaction is a huge priority for me as we only hire top talent. Happy employees are productive employees. And productive employees make my bosses happy which makes our sales go up which
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by gsibble 4y ago
In the bay area, a $500k annual salary is really not that much in the grand scheme of thngs.
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by gsibble 4y ago
We very infrequently get asked to reimburse for time but we do limit how much when we do. We usually give various challenges as take homes which people find fun and engaging, projects that I myself have spent hours or even days trying to so
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by gsibble 4y ago
Sorry, but neither of those things show me that you know how to code. I don't know how long it took you to write your projects so you may be very slow and a terrible coder. Technical questions you may have prepped from a book. I need t
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by gsibble 4y ago
I've heard horror stories. No amount of pay could get me to work there.
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by gsibble 4y ago
Honestly, we've never encountered this problem. I've never poached someone that didn't work out. Usually, if I poach, I have to pay a premium so I'm fairly sure they can do the job.
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by gsibble 4y ago
We move extremely fast on good applicants. We've gone from resume to interview to take home to offer in 24 hours. More companies need to be able to do that.
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by gsibble 4y ago
Depends upon how much proof I think I need to see. Both min/max are an hour but you can spend as long as you'd like on some. We take fun problems (github challenge projects I've spent days on just for fun) and give them as te
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by gsibble 4y ago
That's fine. We're happy to let you do that if that's how you'd prefer to show us you can code.
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by gsibble 4y ago
That's actually quite an insulting thing to say.
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by gsibble 4y ago
Yes, I/we do things significantly different than any other company I've worked for. Working fully remote makes it easier since you don't see people getting up from their desks or not coming into work. Our developers have no s
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by gsibble 4y ago
I don't believe in paying good developers less than they are worth. I'm a CTO. I'm the developers evangelist inside my company. Their success is my success. Their happiness drives my KPIs. I'm not interested in saving a
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by gsibble 4y ago
Ok, tell me yours.
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by gsibble 4y ago
Ok. What would you suggest instead? I need to know you can, you know, actually code.
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by gsibble 4y ago
If the person requests it, we pay for interview time as long as the hourly is reasonable. Not a problem. The real question I have for you is, how would you prefer to prove to me you can actually do the job? In person coding exercise? Isn&#x
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by gsibble 4y ago
That's why I try to make take homes fun. I like the elevator problem in Python. Try to make elevator software that passes the unit tests. Sounds simple, right? Wrong. Very hard. I don't really care how successful you are. I want t
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by gsibble 4y ago
I've never poached someone without giving them a significant raise for one thing. I'm always clear about my expectations which are pretty simple - your time belongs to you. We pay you a high salary and expect you to get your assig
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by gsibble 4y ago
Yeah, I do have to say every company I've worked for with "unlimited PTO" really means "no PTO and if you take any you will be shamed for it and possibly fired."
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by gsibble 4y ago
Definitely only true for US and certain geographical areas, including the one I'm in. All I'm really saying is top-tier, experienced talent in top paying geographies make significantly more than $200k.
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by gsibble 4y ago
I wrote banking software that took a company's valuation from $400 million to $6 billion when it went public. That's not a special ability?
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by gsibble 4y ago
Seriously.
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by gsibble 4y ago
By my mid-30s and having started programming at 9 and professionally at 14, 200k is chump change for a salary. That's what they really haven't caught up to.

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